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How to Increase Your Visual Intelligence

August 6th, 2010 by Admin | 5 Comments | Filed in Brain & Perception

Visual intelligence can be easily increased. The ability to quickly recognize more of what you see, including more nuances, distinctions and meanings is visual intelligence.

Although we need our eyes to see, all that our eyes perceive is impressions of light. Our eyes account for only 10% of our perception of vision. People who have 20/20 vision, with or without corrective lenses differ widely in their visual intelligence.

Easily and effectively you can learn to see more by, well, seeing more. See people, places and things that are new to you.

We see through our memories. The more visual memories we have that are of different people, places and things, the more we are able to perceive.

Science has discovered that 90% of vision happens in our brains. Our brains decode the impressions of light sent by our eyes into meaningful data. We experience the brain’s translation of this data as seeing.

People can be blind, or partially blind when specific areas of the brain that relate to specific types of visual recognition, such as faces, is damaged. We are all also relatively blind to what is radically new to us.

There is a documented story of a European medical doctor who was working with a tribe in Africa over a century ago during the colonial period. He became good friends with the chief who was very intelligent and they spent many off hours together. The doctor was introduced to the tribal culture, which included sculpture and other visual artistic expression, but not painting.

When a show of good European paintings (this predates the acceptance of Modern Art, so these paintings were realistic) traveled to a colonized town within a day’s journey, the doctor invited the chief to accompany him so that he could share his culture’s art.

After they walked through the show, the doctor asked the chief how he liked the paintings of the people and places in Europe. The chief asked what he meant.

It turned out that when the chief looked at the paintings all that he saw was colors, not people, places or things, which were wholly unfamiliar to him. The chief lacked the idea and experience of visual information being conveyed through paint.

They returned to the show, where painting by painting the doctor pointed out what was in the painting until the chief actually had enough new visual memories of paintings depicting people, places and things, that he could see them on his own. Then the chief became delighted with the art and new experience!

The above story explains how we gain greater visual intelligence. Being able to discern images that are comprised of paint, ink or pixels is something normally sighted people in the industrialized world learn to do by the time they are toddlers. But the average toddler, no matter how intelligent, cannot see everything in a detailed painting, such as a Rembrandt, that an adult can. The toddler lacks the many visual memories and encounters with works of art that are necessary to view the subtleties of Rembrandt’s work

This is why young children especially enjoy books where the illustrations are simple and brightly colored. Bright, basic colors are the first ones we learn to see. Yet it is important to introduce and point out more complex shades and color variations to children as the focus it helps them acquire new visual memories and understandings.

Travel, meeting new people who are not of our own familiar racial groups, seeing art and going to movies that include new and different visual information, such as people, places and things created by special effects allows us to increase our visual memories. This means we can recognize. This increases our functional visual intelligence.

So, take the time to break out of your daily visual rut of the places you go, and the environments and people you see. The more different people, places and things you learn to see, the more you will be able to see. Increase your visual intelligence!
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Judy Rey Wasserman is an artist and the founder of Post Conceptual Art theory and also the branch known as UnGraven Image Art. Download a free copy click: Manifesto of Post Conceptual Art– A Painting’s Meaning is Inherent in its Stroke.

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How Using Twitter Increases Intelligence

March 18th, 2009 by Admin | 13 Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Why being active on Twitter is like can be like playing brain games to increase awareness, perception and intelligence

Among the Social Media sites Twitter stands out as unique for its short 140 Tweets (micro blogs) and totally visual presentation. While other social media sites rush to incorporate video, music, groups, games, and other applications, Twitter execs keep plodding along ignoring possible competition and just being twitter. Twitter is all sight, no sound, no video, and as its screen based so smell or taste – just messages with 140 characters.

According to Wikipedia : “Intelligence (also called intellect ) is an umbrella term used to describe a property of the mind that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, to plan, to solve problems, to think abstractly, to comprehend ideas, to use language, and to learn.”

Recent scientific discoveries in neuroscience have shown that a healthy human brain can continue to grow, by adding more connections and even mass throughout one’s lifetime. People can actually gain intelligence. What makes the difference is how one uses one’s brain on an ongoing basis. Stimulated, challenged and learning brains grow.

Spending time interacting on Twitter on an ongoing basis can foster growth in many kinds of intelligence.

Spatial, Visual and Kinetic Intelligence

Twitter is the most immediately interactive of all the major social media sites. Whether a person uses Twitter straight from the web or via a cell phone or ipad or other reading device the stream continues to move along. Blink and one may miss important information or a link, a great joke –or a comment in a fascinating conversation between other members.

Much like forms of instant messaging and chat, people hold real time conversations on Twitter. However, as the stream keeps moving the Twitter member must make quick decisions as whether and what to reply. This means that the type of viewing Twitter requires is not passive, but active and engaged. This is the type of viewing most aware and best suitable for learning.

Messaging back brings in the tactile or kinetic component as the Twitterer must use a keyboard and mouse quickly to message or copy and ReTweet (RT) someone’s message as the stream keeps relentlessly rolling along with new messages. While doing this many Twitters, have a second Twitter screen open to keep an eye out for other messages pertinent to the conversation while quickly composing one’s own reply.

This quick back and forth finding, reviewing and responding to several visual sources of scrolling information promotes greater skill with spatial, visual and kinetic (the typing) information. In a way this visually mirrors actively participating in a sport where one must follow a moving target, ball or player, access the situation and then take action in response.

Enhanced Creativity

Every great artist knows the luxury of rules and limits. Constraints foster creativity, as one seeks to get around them or at least transform them through one’s choices.

The Twitter rule of 140 characters per Tweet fosters creativity. One’s best idea or comment must be condensed to 140 characters and if one is in a conversation this must happen quickly. Plus if the message has a chance of being RTed and going viral, the maximum it can be is 128 characters. This extra shortening leaves space for one’s own Twitter ID, such as mine, @judyrey, plus the letters RT and a space.

The 140 character rule has prompted many creative abbreviations and terms within the Twitter community. For instance, the hashtag (#) sign is used to congregate messages on a topic, such as #pray4 or the most popular one, #TCOT (Top Conservatives On Twitter). Using a site such as http://search.twitter.com or http://tweetchat.com one can follow the separate # conversation much like a chat room.

While Twitter also incorporates texting abbreviations, terms, apps and many hash tag abbreviations are subset of English unique to Twitter, which fosters language learning skills.

Interpersonal and Emotional Intelligence

Twitter is a social site that fosters relationships. Aside from the celebrities and gurus who are followed for obvious reasons, the people who have the most followers often follow back and busily interact and build relationships. Just as in any real village, people who are popular are helpful, interested in other people, fun and busily interacting with others.

In order to explain #TCOT above, I turned to the Twitter stream at about 2 AM EDT on a Sunday evening and asked, “ What does #TCOT actually stand for T C O T? Needed for an apolitical blog article on Twitter & how it can promote intelligence.”

Within a minute I had five replies.  Twitter helps bring people together and fosters relationships.

What is interesting is that I have not had any or much of a relationship with these specific Twitter members prior to asking this question. Partially, this is due to the time I asked it. Yet a reply came in from another member I have conversed with asking that I tell her answer to what TCOT is as she has wondered also.

As the information flowed in the stream as I publicly thanked those who replied, members who follow me and were present saw the interaction from my side and were introduced to the IDs of these Tweople.

No one in the Twitter village drives a really fancy vehicle, lives in a mansion, dresses well, or has any real world trappings that can impress someone. It’s impossible to show any of that in the stream. Everyone is reduced to using 140 characters, one avatar (which can be changed, but only one at a time), plus one bio page and URL link; that’s all, there is no visible gold, glitter or bling.

Tweets enter into the stream in an orderly fashion on a first come first served real time way. It is impossible to out shout, shove or bully anyone in the stream. Each tweet is just as loud and has the same space and visual importance as any other. Whatever one’s race, sex or creed, everyone gets a chance and is accorded the same space.

People who have a victim or nasty attitude soon either change their ways or discover that they have few followers and few people who are willing to engage in conversation with them. Their messages are not RTed.

Although there’s no body language and the only Twitter visual aids are each user’s avatar and whatever is used for a background on their Twitter Bio page, after a while people one follows become easier to read. It is a process that takes time. This can be a social learning lesson for those who tend to rush into relationships full steam. On Twitter it’s easy to spot obsessive behavior—even one’s own.

Everyone can easily see who follows who and how many people follow each member. Moreover, every single message tweeted is kept in a log of updates, which is also open to every other Twitter member. Thus, Twitter naturally fosters transparency.

Since the majority of conversations must occur in the stream as Twitter has limits for the number of direct messages allowed we witness each others behavior. The people who are successful on Twitter, who use it to foster relationships, including ones for business are opening doing their thing. Anyone can learn how to interact, spot phonies and users by watching and participating on Twitter.

Using lists means a person may have three or more streams moving simultaneously as one interacts in several conversations on different topics with different members of the Twitter village at the same time. It’s a visual and metal juggling act that top Twitters with many followers who follow back many have learned to do well.

In prior generations men and women hunted for game, watching for movement or searched for food to gather. Visually Twitter supplies some of our natural need or enjoyment for spying out discoveries or even prey.

Visual and Logical Intelligence

Thus just following the Twitter stream forces a person to concentrate, skim relevant information, and make quick appropriate choices as to what links to follow, bookmark for a later time (by using a favorites star) or ignore.

This is the type of information sorting teachers try to instill when explaining how to take outline notes – only on Twitter the information seems more relevant than classroom learning ever did. Increasing one’s recognition of what is important and what is less so is a way to directly increase functional intelligence.

Twitter for Learning

Like a book, Twitter lacks sound, and so mimics a streamed book current life in its stream of ongoing Tweets.

Many of the Tweets contain links to articles that range from fast breaking news to arcane knowledge. Information can be found on health, child-rearing, business, investing, the arts, religion, self help, books, and of courses how to use Twitter. At times Hanging out on Twitter can seem like a stroll through a library where links in Tweets are book titles.

Using Twitter to Increase Intelligence is Fun!

Studies in neuroscience continue to indicate the benefits of mental challenges, especially those that involve the perception of vision, socializing and social networks, hand eye coordination exercises, etc.

Twitter can be so much fun and so interesting that it has not been noticed as a brain enhancing tool. Brain enhancement was not the purpose or goal of Twitter’s founders, but Twitter definitely succeeds at it when a member uses it to interact and build community. Community is what sets Twitter apart from other brain enhancing programs on the web as on Twitter one is never alone.

Judy Rey Wasserman is the founder of Post Conceptual UnGraven Image Art theory at http://ungravenimage.com. Discover how this new way of painting using symbols for strokes can actually change your vision by adding visual memories we normally lack to your brain. This in turn has an amazing and freeing effect in relation to unwanted, negative and creative emotions. See more at http://artofseeingthedivine.com.

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Understanding Enhanced Vision is a Life Transforming Key to Success

December 11th, 2008 by Admin | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

New advances in neuroscience and medicine have discovered and shown that the perception of vision is based in the brain, not they eyes.

One of the implications of this discovery is that a person’s vision and even life can be changed and even transformed by adding new visual information to the brain.

The eyes transmit impressions of light to the brain. That accounts for ten percent (10%) of the vision process. The brain then decodes these received impressions by comparing them to may previously stored visual memories. This occurs so quickly that it seems to be instantaneous.

A person whose life experience has included being visually exposed to many different people, places and things has a larger visual reference, and thus functional visual intelligence. We actually better see, and notice more… and then more when we have prior visual references for a person place or thing.

In the Twentieth Century advertisers learned that a product needed rand recognition to become successful. Many campaigns for new products were and are based on creating this recognition rather than acquiring sales, as sales follow recognition.

Although it was understood that sales follow recognition of a product the fuller recognition of the fact that people are almost blind to new products was not understood. The brain needs visual memories of a people place or thing to decode and actually see more of it. The more memories, the better a person can see a product.

This understanding can also be used to understand social relationships and how they are fostered and maintained. The more a person sees and relates to someone, the closer one feels, even if that person is not actually appreciated or liked! The more an actor or politician is seen the better the chances their films and shows will be watched or that they will be elected.

The brain can also be trained to see more by purposefully looking at new people, places or things. This can be done in person or through images in printed or online media. While viewing the latest toothpaste may not be the most brain enhancing, studies have shown that viewing people from different cultures, who one is not usually exposed to helps one learn to see and actually distinguish their faces more readily. This is looking for the sake of looking, just as one does when one visits and art museum or galleries.

Although art lovers, and certainly patrons and collectors tend to be on a higher economic basis, and are thus thought to be more intelligent, which came first the chicken or egg conundrum begins to apply. Clearly people who regularly visit art museums, galleries and look at people. Places or things are busy increasing their visual intelligence and ability.

Art can also be purposefully used to expand or enhance one’s ability to see more, thus increasing visual and actual intelligence. Actual intelligence is improved as memories, including visual ones are actual things. The more different memories one has the more one actually physically expands one’s brain. The more different kinds of visual memories one has the greater the chance that the brain can decode a new impression of a person, place or thing, making one more functionally intelligent.

The more different kinds of visual memories one has the greater the chance that the brain can decode a new impression of a person, place or thing, making one more functionally intelligent.

Post Conceptual UnGraven Image are is unique as it reveals the energy that the eyes see but the brain has few, if any visual memories of to use. Seeing this art one begins to build visual memories that are eventually used by the brain, creating an enhanced vision.

There is even a book about this, The Art of Seeing The Divine , which includes a series of Exercise/Experiences created to help the reader easily and quickly create more energy seeing visual memories.

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Apparently when one has enough visual memories of energy the brain begins to decode prior memories of emotion, including unwanted or negative emotion that pop up, usually unconsciously, during the ongoing visual decoding process as simply more energy. The viewer experiences fewer feelings of unwanted anger, fear, hurt, etc., which were previously triggered during the visual decoding process, but are now decoded as just more visual energy. This does not mean the feelings are resolved, it means that during the day they are not constantly restimulated.

This new scientific understanding about the brain’s dominant role in vision also explains why people who read more are better readers, and can be applied readily to other aspects of education. A person can apply it when attempting to learn anything new, because knowing that at first one needs to keep looking, building visual memories, means greater tolerance and achievement through the natural learning process. Visual repetition can be a key to success.

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Increase Visual Awareness to Gain Functional Intelligence

December 1st, 2008 by Admin | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Purposefully increasing one’s ability to visually perceive has the added benefit of increasing one’s functional intelligence. Visual perception is easily increased by exposure to new and interesting sights and visual l experiences. These can be gained from brain games, seeing art, travel and by basically exposure to new visual stimuli that one consciously focuses upon in order to experience and visually comprehend.

Recent discoveries in neuroscience and medicine reveal that ninety percent of the perception of vision occurs as the brain decodes the impressions of light received from the eyes. All that the eyes can see is impressions of light. The brain decodes these impressions by comparing them to memories of previous impressions.

When a person’s brain is injured in an area that is used to store a specific kind of visual memory the person is rendered blind in relation to that type of visual perception. For example, one brain injured man cannot see and recognize faces, although he can see bodies, things and landscapes. He recognizes his family members based on his other perceptions.

Science has also revealed that sixty percent of the average person’s brain is dedicated to the perception of vision. This leaves the senses of hearing, touch, taste and scent, plus other mental functions to the rest of the brain. Vision is our most dominant sense.

The ability to decode information and most especially visual information is related to intelligence. While prescriptions for corrective lenses allow the eyes to clearly perceive, they do not increase perception or ability beyond the intake of raw data. What is most important is how your brain decodes and uses that impressions of light received from the eyes.

The brain can continue to grow, and people can actually become more selectively intelligent throughout life. Selective intelligence means perceptual and cognitive understandings and mastery in a specific area or subject. Thus, Einstein was a genius when relation to physics and mathematics, but he was far less brilliant in other areas.

The brain can continue to grow, and people can actually become more selectively intelligent throughout life. Selective intelligence means perceptual and cognitive understandings and mastery in a specific area or subject. Thus, Einstein was a genius when relation to physics and mathematics, but he was far less brilliant in other areas.

While challenging our minds through new ideas, puzzles and brain games, reading, hobbies, etc. can help us maintain and even grow our brain’s functions (and selective intelligence) there is only one way to growing one’s visual intelligence is only possible through new visual stimulus or experiences.

Ironically new visual understandings and knowledge are based on prior visual memories.We only experience seeing what our prior visual memories enable the brain to decode into meaningful data. Apparently there is a tipping point of visual memories that allows something to be easily seen and recognized. Thus a person who is first exposed to something or someone truly needs multiple visual exposures in order to better see the person, place or thing.

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We only experience seeing what our prior visual memories enable the brain to decode into meaningful data.

We all know that when we see people often they are easier to recognize. When we have a new model of a gadget, such as a cell phone, it takes a period of time before we are comfortable with the new model. During that period we are creating and storing memories that our brains can the use. When we have enough memories for ease of perceptual decoding we feel comfortable.

A person with many kinds of visual memories can actually see more because have more visual references in their memory. The more we move out of our comfort zones to experience people, places and things that are new, the more we expand our comfort zones.

In industrialized society we are bombarded with images at a rate that is unprecedented in the history of humankind. In one day an average middle class middle aged urban dweller sees more new and vastly different images on screens (such as PCs, TVs and Cell phones), on billboards and signs, in printed media, and in store windows and on populated streets than a village dweller in an undeveloped country might see in a year.

Both the urbanite and village dweller in an undeveloped country may have their eyes open for roughly the same amount of time, yet the urbanite’s brain has adapted and has developed differently than the brain of the village dweller. The urbanite has greater visual intelligence and is able to decode more, and visually comprehend new information faster as it is more experienced.

Studies have proven that visual exposure to a subject produces more recognition. However, the best kind of exposure involves active looking, the kind of looking you are doing now in order to decipher this text. Contrast this with the kind of looking one might do as one hurries along a street, focuses only on one’s forward path and purposefully ignoring much else—there is not much conscious deciphering or inquisitive involvement..

A hobby such as bird watching benefits the brain as it involved focused visual learning and attentiveness. People attend games to watch fast paced sports on a regular basis see nuances and understand movements that casual fans miss. However, when one watches on a TV, especially a large screen TV the focused factor is lost as the camera actually shows one where to look, and viewing is visually more passive.

We can purposefully visually train out brains at any age. In fact, visual brain stimulation, including games helps to slow and even reverse the brain’s aging process. Museums where one is visually stimulated through new sights are wonderful exercise studios for the brain and if a person actively focuses on and investigates the art or items displayed.

For the average healthy person fitness needs to include brain fitness. The fastest and most effective way to improve the brain is through focused visual stimulation. This means active looking, which is focused and inquisitive. The more we learn, especially visually, the more knowledge that we can apply, the more our brains actually grow by creating memories and links and so we become functionally smarter.

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Seeking to be Normal is Madness

November 6th, 2008 by Admin | 4 Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Apparently, according to psychologists, intelligence and the ability to accomplish a goal despite a minor obstacle is not only abnormal, but worth studying.  This is especially true if the person being studied is gifted or highly intelligent.

It is fascinating when second tier minds delve into top tier or genius minds under the guise of scientific research , while assigning syndromes and abnormalities, in other words problem behavior, to superior intelligence and genius.

If the goal truly is to help people lead more normal lives, you can count me out. I am absolutely positive that I do not wish to be normal. I want to be smarter than normal, happier, more fulfilled, more successful, enjoy better relationships, and so forth. I am not aiming at normal but as outstanding.

Who aims at normal?

Is being normal even possible, since everyone has different talents?

It should be noted that whenever someone attempts to criticize me by that cutting comment, “You’re not normal”, which usually means the speaker wants his or her own way, I usually reply heartily, “Thank you!”

Wanting to be normal is a phase that preteens and teens of the human species go thought, although for them “normal” seems to mean fitting in with one’s peer group. After that age it would seem that seeking to be normal would be a sure sign of immaturity.

Boing Boing has a recent blog that comes from a post at Psychology Today about a study conducted by Edouard Machery on people who supposedly have Asperger’s Syndrome.

Asberger’s Syndrome is largely the latest attempt by psychologists to attack people who are geniuses or are in the upper 25 of intelligence for the population by determining that these folks are not normal. Who needs a “scientist” to inform then that people like Einstein and Newton were not normal? Doe not the term “genius” imply that?

So many people who are super smart and gifted are now being diagnosed or suspected as having Asperger’s, which is considered to be within the autistic spectrum.

Spectrum? As in colors? Wow! How fancy! As an artist, I like spectrums. Does this mean autism comes in colors? Apparently the use of the word spectrum is just a clever way to lump everyone who is not within the decided range of “normal” into a problematical range.

According to the study a man who has been running and is dehydrated goes into a Smoothie shop and asks the clerk for the largest smoothie available. The clerk replies int comes with a free special cup and asks if the runner wants that. The runner simply says give me the largest smoothie and so gets the smoothie is the cup.

The next instance includes the same initial variables. The runner asks for a smoothie. This time the clerk says that the largest smoothie is a dollar ($1) extra. The runner repeats the order for the largest smoothie available.

Now, from this study it seems that normal people think that in the first instance obtain the special cup was not intentional. But in the second instance paying the extra dollar is seen as intentional and as a decision. People who have been determined to have Asperger’s syndrome think that neither obtaining the cup or paying the extra dollar was intentional, just part of the process to =obtaining the goal of the largest smoothie.

There is a hot discussion of comments over at Psychology Today, and one is mine.

If the goal is to obtain something — in the case of the study the largest smoothie– then accomplishing the goal despite small obstacles is a mark of intelligence.

The choice (intention) is whether or not to accomplish the goal.
Since the special “free” cup is basically a gift, that has no bearing on accomplishing the goal whatsoever. It does not present any obstacle.

The extra dollar is a small obstacle possibly, but clearly price was not a factor considering the original request to the clerk was for the largest smoothie, not how much is the largest smoothie?

To begin with, the clerk has a mental problem of his own, since he even mentions the extra dollar, which could be an obstacle to the greater sale, when the sale is actually already made. This is akin to a Lexus salesman who has a buyer ready to sign offering suddenly reminding the buyer that for far less money he could buy a top of the line Toyota.

Next, a “normal” person who allows himself to be deflected from a goal due to a small inconvenience, which is paying an extra dollar — not even a good tip for anything nowadays — seems to me to be the person with the problem.

If the situation was set up differently, so that the largest smoothie cost say $20.00 extra, an exorbitant amount of money for any smoothie, then perhaps the test might be valid and make some sense. Deciding whether to pay a recognized over the top amount for a common item, change goals or go somewhere else would be involved. The chiice would be more intentional.

It also should be noted that Asperger’s syndrome people are all highly intelligent and even rational. Decisions are not usually made based on emotions but facts and reality.

Why is this considered to be a problem or a syndrome? It seems that this is because it is not “normal”. Normal people can behave irrationally based on emotions and unconscious beliefs, decisions and memories. They give more weight when making a decision to their feelings, including those of anger, upset, sadness, jealousy, etc.

The study needs to focus on the decision making processes of the so called scientists and psychologists who study Asperger’s Syndrome as an abnormality, rather than as a new “normal” for intelligence and decision making that humankind can hope to attain.

Here is my comment: If the goal is to obtain something — in the case of the study the largest smoothie– then accomplishing the goad despite small obstacles is a mark of intelligence.

The choice (intention) is whether or not to accomplish the goal.
Since the special “free” cup is basically a gift, that has no bearing on accomplishing the goal whatsoever. It does not present any obstacle.

The extra dollar is a small obstacle possibly, but clearly price was not a factor considering the original request to the clerk was for the largest smoothie, not how much is the largest smoothie?

To begin with, the clerk has a mental problem of his own, since he even mentions the extra dollar, which could be an obstacle to the greater sale, when the sale is actually already made. This is akin to a Lexus salesman who has a buyer ready to sign offering suddenly reminding the buyer that for far less money he could buy a top of the line Toyota.

Next, a “normal” person who allows himself to be deflected from a goal due to a small inconvenience, which is paying an extra dollar — not even a good tip for anything nowadays — seems to me to be the person with the problem.

If the situation was set up differently, so that the largest smoothie cost say $20.00 extra, an exorbitant amount of money for any smoothie, then perhaps the test might be valid and make some sense. Deciding whether to pay a recognized over the top amount for a common item, change goals or go somewhere else would be involved. The choice would be more intentional.

It also should be noted that Asperger’s syndrome people are all highly intelligent and even rational. Decisions are not usually made based on emotions but facts and reality.

Why is this considered to be a problem or a syndrome? It seems that this is because it is not “normal”. Normal people can behave irrationally based on emotions and unconscious beliefs, decisions and memories. They give more weight when making a decision to their feelings, including those of anger, upset, sadness, jealousy, etc.

In normal relationships emotional reactions (as opposed to conscious emotional responses) are understood as valid reasons for making a decision. By extension all phobias would be normal and valid as they are fueled by emotional reactions, especially the emotion of fear.

Asperger’s Syndrome as an abnormality, rather than as a new “normal” for intelligence and decision making that humankind can hope to attain.

Again, why aim at normal? Why not aim at extraordinary success, in life through increase intelligence, more control of ones mind (including one’s thoughts and emotions) and success?

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